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John Gottman's Missing Variable
Gottman learned to predict divorce from the way people fight. My Formula names the force riding underneath all four of his horsemen: Fear.
P.N. Yaya
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What Kahneman Got Right About Fear — And the Variable He Left Out
Daniel Kahneman mapped how the mind goes wrong, then admitted that knowing about your biases doesn't fix them. Here's the variable his framework observed but never named as the operator: Fear.
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Marshall Rosenberg's Missing Variable
Rosenberg taught the world to hear the need beneath the attack. The formula names what turns a need into an attack in the first place: Fear.
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Jonathan Haidt's Elephant, and the Variable That Steers It
Haidt showed that reason rides an elephant it can't control. The formula names what the elephant is usually running from: Fear.
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Viktor Frankl and the Space Between Stimulus and Response
Frankl found the gap where a person becomes free. The formula in my book names the one thing that has to leave that gap before any freedom is possible: Fear.